On her MSNBC program, Rachel Maddow pointed out that the Russians knew about the Donald Trump Jr. meeting before The New York Times ever did, and asked the vital question, did the Russians use their information to blackmail anyone in the White House?

“In a strange way, it’s a relief that President Donald Trump and his various henchmen are such idiots when it comes to dealing with what’s rapidly evolving into a presidency-ending scandal. Otherwise we might not know half of what we’ve heard about the increasingly treacherous Trump-Russia story. If Trump was closer to a real-life Frank Underwood, there’d still be a massive scandal, but the president and his people wouldn’t be inexplicably confessing to it.” MORE